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Downtown merchants began a
series of fund raisers including silent auctions, little “outhouse”
donation boxes in all the shops and a hand painted thermometer sign in the
center of town to mark their progress. Donations and discounts were
requested of labor and materials. When Aurora’s well known re-creation of
the Oregon Trail crossing during the state’s sesquicentennial in 1993
brought its wagon and mule team back home, the mules and souvenirs of the
trip were sold at a special community auction and those funds, too, went
toward the restroom. Two years later and with the final help of
some county grant funds, the restroom was finished, eventually winning a
statewide award. |